Ancient, British & World Coins, Commemorative Medals and Books

Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, 1910, a silver award medal by B. Mackennal, named (Harold H. Mann, D Sc, F.I.C., F.L.S., for his paper on ‘The Indian Tea Industry in its Scientific Aspects’, Session 1930-31), 55mm (BHM 4004; E 1917); George V, Silver Jubilee, 1935, a silver medal, unsigned, 57mm (W & E 5771.1); The Polytechnic, a silver medal by J. Taylor, named (The Cogswell Trophy, awarded to David Handley, 1962), 57mm; together with other miscellaneous medals (3, two in silver) [6]. Generally extremely fine; all in cases, second by W.R. Bullen, Watchmaker Jeweller & Silversmith, 29 London St, Norwich £80-100

Harold Hart Mann (1872-1961), agricultural scientist and prolific author on the Indian tea industry; educ. Leeds and the Pasteur Institute, Paris; scientific officer to the Indian Tea Association 1900-7 and later the principal at Poona Agricultural College and agricultural chemist to the government of Bombay; returned to England 1927; in charge of the Lawes Agricultural Trust, Woburn, 1928-56; lecturer at the London School of Economics; lived at Apsley Guise, Bedfordshire. Sold with further biographical detail incorporating a portrait photograph